Fence-wire tightener.



Patented Mar 25, I902.

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THE nouns Pmns ca, PnoTaLmio. WASHINGTON, D. Q

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RANDOLPH ARTHUR WVINTERS, OF ATWOOD, KANSAS.

FENCE-WIRE TIG HTE N ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 696,291, dated March 25, 1902.

7 Application filed September 20, 1901- Serial No. 75,808. (No model.)

T0 to whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RANDOLPH ARTHUR WINTERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atwood, countyof Rawlins, State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fence-Wire Tighteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fence-wire tighteners.

The object of the invention is the provision of a fence-wire-tightening tool of simple and durable construction which can be produced at small expense and will be adapted for rapid manipulation to take up slack wire in a strand of fence-wire and whereby when this is done a permanent tightening will be efifected.

Having the foregoing object in View, the invention consists of a fence-wire=tightenin g device of improved construction, as fully set forth in the following description, while the novel features are recited in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view illustrating the initial position of the staple andthe tool ;.Fig. 2, a view showing the position of the tool and illustrating the bend formed after the tool has completed its Work; Fig. 3, a detail of thebend formed in the fence-wire; and Figsmt and5 details of the improved chuck of the tool.

My improved tool has a'handle 1, with a right-angular arm 2 formed integral therewith, provided with a hooked end 3.

The numeral 4 designates a stem secured to the handle intermediate its ends, on which is the screw-threaded chuck member 5, having the diametrical slot 6 therethrough.

The numerals 7 and 8 designate jaws having shanks 9, which are slidable in the slot, while theirrear ends or tips 10 are curved or beveled for reception in a countersink 11, whereby theyarein' a sense provided with a pivotal connection. The heads of these jaws have longitudinally-extending grooves 12 and 13, and the jaws are normally spread by a coil-spring 14, seated in box 15'.

The numeral 16 designates a chuck member or sleeve, which is internally threaded and screwed over the slotted chuck member and adapted for collapsing the'jaws.

In using the invention when it is desired to take up the slack in fence-wires a staple 17 is made to straddle the fence-wire, as shown in Fig. 1." Its legs are inserted in the grooves of the jaws and the jaws clamped thereon.

.The handle is then given a three-quarters turn toward the right and the hooked end on the arm brought under the fence-wire, whereupon it will be asshown in Fig. 2. This engagement of the hooked end of the arm with the wire holds the tool rigid and a binding wire 18 is then slipped through the closed end of the staple and its ends twisted a few times around the fence-wire on opposite sides of the staple. The tool can then be removed and the'joint or bend formed will remain perma-' nent;

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is g In a device of the class described, the combination with a chuck member having a slot and a countersink, of chuck -jaws having shanks located in the slot and ends located in the countersink, said jaws having heads each RANDOLPH ARTHUR WINTERS.

Witnesses:

B. A. HALLEY,

ALBERT HENNING.,. 

